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Paftentd Jian. 15, 1918.

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GEORGE IE', HOFFMAN, GF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Application led September 12, 1917.

Y 0 all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnoucn F. HOFFMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flags, of which the following is a specifica tion.

The principal objects of the present in.

vention are, first, to provide for keeping flags from winding on their poles while permitting them to float or iiy freely and gracefully, and second, to provide a strong, durable and comparatively inexpensive device for accomplishing the foregoing object and which when in use is concealed, and which can be readily attached to and detached from the flag by which it is carried. rlhe invention will be claimed at the end hereof but will be first described in connection with the embodiment of it chosen for illustration in the accompanying drawings forming part hereof and in which Figure l, is a side view illustrating a. Hag embodying features of the invention.

Fig. Q, is a similar View drawn to an enlarged scale and illustrating by dotted lines part of a flag embodying a modification of the invention.

P ig. 3, is an end view of the clamp shown in Figs. l and 2.

Fig. 4, is a side view drawn to a reduced scae and illustrating another modification, an

Fig. 5, is a view illustrating another modication.

ln the drawings 1, is the heading of a flag and it is provided with the usual gromets 2 and 3. There is a rod integrally looped at one end into the form of a halyard-eye 4, and integrally bent to form a gromet hook 5, and having its shaft 6, off-set at 7, near` the hook 5, and in the direction of and beyond the bend of the hook 5, to cause it to lie inside of the margin of the flag and be concealed thereby. There are means for detachably securing the other end of the shaft to the margin of the iiag. As shown in Figs. 4 and 5, these means comprise a pocket 8, inside of the margin of the iag which receives the offset shaft of the rod. The end of the rod which enters the pocket is shown, Fig. 4, as bent into the form of the ring 9, in order to prevent it from perforating the material of which the pocket is composed Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 45, 4945.

serial No. 190,877.

and as shown in Fig. 5, this is not the case. is shown in Figs. l and 2, the means for detachably. securing the end of the rod to the margin of the flag comprise a clamp 10, projecting inward from an oifset 11, of the shaft and having jaws of which one is provided with indentations and the other with corresponding projections.

is shown in Figs, 1 and 5, the bill of the gromet hook is provided with a prolongation l2, disposed at substantially a right angle with the shaft of the rod, and this prolongation is attached to the margin of the flag, as by means of a tie-cord 13.

in all cases the gromet hook 5, is hooked into one of the gromets. As shown, it is hooked into the gromet 8, at the bottom of the flag but it can be hooked into the gromet at the top of the flag, and in that case the rod lies inside of the top instead of the bottom edge, and is concealed by the 'flag within the field of which it lies. The integral construction of the rod, gromet hook and halyard eye provides both strength and ease of manufacture, and one of the most important features is the offset shaft, whereby the rod lies within the field of the flag so that the rod is concealed or rendered inconspicuous by the material of which the flag is made, while at 'the same time the gromet hook is in position for proper engagement with a gromet. The rod may be colored to match the color of the part of the flag upon which it is superposed and thus rendered so inconspicu.u ous that it is not noticeable.

l claim:

1. ln a flag the combination, with a. gromet in the flag heading, of a rod in tegrally looped at one end into the form of a halyard-eye and having an integral bend forming a gromet hook and having its integral shaft offset near the hook and in the direction of and beyond the bend of the hook to cause it to lie inside of the margin of the flag and be concealed thereby, and means for detachably securing the other end of the shaft to the margin of the flag.

9.. ln a flag the combination, with a gromet in the flag heading, of a rod inte grally looped at one end into the forni of a. halyard-eye and having an integral bend forming a gromet hook provided with a bill having a prolongation disposed at substantially a lright angle` with the shaft of the lili@ rod, and means for connecting the other end of the rod and the prolongation of the bill with the flag.

8. In a flag' the combination7 with a gromet in the flag heading, of a rod integrally looped at one end into the form of a halyard-eye and having an integral bend forming a gromet hook provided with a bill having a'prolongation disposed at substantially a right angle with the shaft of the rod, the shaft ofthe rod being offset near the hook Vand in the direction of and beyond the bend ofthe hook, and means for connecting `Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing Ithe Commissioner of Patents.

the other end of the rod and the prolongation of the bill With the Hag.

4. In a iag the combination with a gromet in the flag headingrof a rod integrally looped at one end' into the form ot' a -halyard-eye and having an integral bend forming a gromet hook and having its integral shaft offset near the hook to cause it to lie inside of the margin of the flag and be `concealed thereby, and a pocket inside the margin of the flag which receives the offset shaft of the rod. Y GEORGE F. HOFFMAN.

Washington, D. Q. 

